How to play like John Denver

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Written By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Here’s a lesson for Acoustic Guitar magazine on John Denver’s guitar style, based on some of his most-loved songs. The lesson covers the guitar accompaniment used in:

  • This Old Guitar

  • Leaving on a Jet Plane

  • Take Me Home, Country Roads

  • Sunshine on My Shoulders

  • Annie’s Song

  • Back Home Again

  • I’m Sorry

Listen to the original versions in this Spotify playlist.

Watch the lesson video above, and find the full text and tab online and in the March/April 2020 print/digital issue of Acoustic Guitar.

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers https://www.jeffreypepperrodgers.com
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